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The Moon on Tuesday, January 3, 1989: Waning Crescent, 20% lit

Waning · 20.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 19°

Moon age

25.3days

Moon phase on January 3, 1989Waning Crescent

Tuesday 3 January 1989392,886 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 3, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 20.3% of its visible face lit, 25.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

20.3%Illumination at noon UTC
25.3 dMoon age
392,886 km244,128 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (20°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 3, 1989 is on Friday, December 23, 1988 at 05:29 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 7, 1989 at 19:22 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, December 31, 198804:57
New Moon (after)Saturday, January 7, 198919:22

The Moon around January 3

More about this date

Tuesday, January 3, 1989 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 9, 1988 to the new moon of January 7, 1989, a cycle of 29.57 days.